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Offline Doomhippie

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Barrow Wights
« on: June 27, 2012, 01:35:00 PM »
These two models of barrow wights were painted some time ago. I am not quite happy with them. I originally intended to paint them in a way to look like they are changing from corpopal to etheral. Meaining I wanted to paint the upper left part like they are solid and then gradually start leaving out the colors and paint everything, armour etc, in this whispy bluish-grey color. I failed. Not quite sure why but I didn't manage to have the metal colors fade out.





I'm thinking about getting a few more and paint the whole miniature in grey-blue. Not sure if that actually would look better.

Any suggestions or tips are appreciated.
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Offline OSHIROmodels

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Re: Barrow Wights
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2012, 02:47:48 PM »
I think they look great as they are  8)

The effect as you mention it doesn't seem to work but it doesn't detract from the great paint work.

cheers

James

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Re: Barrow Wights
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2012, 03:01:01 PM »
Nice ones they are!

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Offline Mister Rab

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Re: Barrow Wights
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2012, 03:05:02 PM »
What James said.

I like them, particularly the glowing effect on the second.


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Offline Doomhippie

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Re: Barrow Wights
« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2012, 03:31:12 PM »
What James said.

I like them, particularly the glowing effect on the second.

I guess that's from fiddeling with the photos afterwards...  :D

Well, I think they look pretty decent even if not really the way I aimed at. I guess they can be spooky enough this way. Thanks for the feedback.

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Re: Barrow Wights
« Reply #5 on: June 27, 2012, 03:45:52 PM »
I think that the effect you achieved is quite striking; they have an eerie, chilling aura about them. Quite often I've found that some of the nicest pieces I've produced bear little resemblance to what I was trying for...with moi it's the dumb luck factor. VERY WELL (if unexpectedly) DONE!
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Offline dijit

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Re: Barrow Wights
« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2012, 06:17:01 PM »
Lovely painting, really why haven't we seen more of your stuff before?
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Offline Thantsants

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Re: Barrow Wights
« Reply #7 on: June 27, 2012, 09:21:28 PM »
Beautiful - two happy accidents!  8)

Offline Doomhippie

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Re: Barrow Wights
« Reply #8 on: June 27, 2012, 10:20:54 PM »
Lovely painting, really why haven't we seen more of your stuff before?
Duncan

Hm, I guess that's because I only posted battlereports so far. And I usually have long breaks in my painting process - up to 9 months at times. So enjoy while it lasts...  ;)

Offline Gibby

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Re: Barrow Wights
« Reply #9 on: June 27, 2012, 10:26:54 PM »
Those are fantastic!

Offline dijit

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Re: Barrow Wights
« Reply #10 on: June 28, 2012, 08:09:13 AM »
Hm, I guess that's because I only posted battlereports so far. And I usually have long breaks in my painting process - up to 9 months at times. So enjoy while it lasts...  ;)
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Re: Barrow Wights
« Reply #11 on: June 28, 2012, 08:28:22 AM »
Nice painting!!! Love your brush style man!
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